Marvel Digest : WandaVision (ep. 5)

 Wanda The Manipulator

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I want to start off by saying that I absolutely admire Vision's dad jokes, if I'm going to be honest, they are probably the highlight of the episodes, like come on! Let's be real here. Lol.

So I'm going to go in order of events, because HUN, there was a lot going on in today's episode. 

So of course we were greeted with the preview of the prior episode. I'd like to draw some attention to what Wanda said, "you don't belong here". Then who does Wanda? Last time I checked, she's basically holding all those people against their will. And a prime example would be Norm, who was practically begging Vision to help him.

Now again we have shifted to another decade, I believe we are in the 80's now. But can we just talk about Visions new nickname "Vis", it sounds like some fizzy drink, a grapefruit mixed with blood orange, fizzy drink. I kind of like it😏

So everything is starting to unfold for Wanda in this episode. It is clear that the only people Wanda is trying to hide this whole ordeal from is her husband Vision and her twins. My bigger question is why can she not control the minds of her twins and Vision? I understand that maybe because the twins may not even be real people on the outside so there can't really be a way of her controlling their minds since she already might have conjured them out of nothing. But then that leads back to Vision, is the reason he can't be mind controlled by Wanda because he no longer exists, aka passed away, or is it because Vision was practically created, basically being, or was rather, keeper of the mindstone, and the fact that Wanda's powers came from the mindstone. Similarly to how Captain Marvel also got her powers from an Infinity Stone. This, therefore, would make Vision immune to her mind control powers. My even bigger question is who exactly is going to stop Wanda, will it be Vision, and if so, how exactly would he do that? It seems like we would have to wait and see. And from what it looks like, this is probably something that only Wanda can really push through, because clearly everyone except the people on the other side of Westview, are just rolling with it. I mean...can you really blame them.

But wait...

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During the episode it was established that Wanda is indeed facing grief, and I guess there's still a couple more stages to go.

Moving on.

I still do not understand the rapid growth in their twins. It does not seem to be something that her or Vision want. Then again, if it's really Wanda controlling everything why in the world is she acting like this is out of her range of powers. She did take over a whole entire town. Now, in relation to that, a little quote, "Can't control 'em no matter how hard you try", is this some type of hidden message to the viewers that no matter how powerful Wanda is at controlling everyone, some things will seep through the cracks. Practically what I'm getting from this series is that the people that she is mind controlling know exactly or vaguely what is going on but do not exactly tell Wanda they know, I guess as long as they do not confront her or Vision about it, they are not going to be booted out.

Although what I found comical, yet very strange about this episode as well as every other episode, is that Vision had baby pictures. I know that out of everything that's the one thing that is on my mind but it is very important. How in the WORLD would Vision be having baby pictures when he was legit conjured about four movies ago. I'm even more shocked that Tony Stark was not featured in any one of his baby pictures as his parent, considering he IS the father. I mean I am shocked...but not surprised. Again good creative animation with the scene where Vision is being painted back into colour. It was giving very much REVIVAL.

Can I momentarily draw your attention to one of the commercials that featured in today's episode. The HYDRA soap commercial is quite interesting. Considering Loki and Thor's sister is literally called Hydra. I know what we're all thinking. Will she make a guest appearance or not because???!!!

Side note; I love the fact that they labelled Wanda a terrorist, like she did not just save all of you guys with the Avengers.

What I don't get is how they are going to blame Wanda for stealing Vision's corpse when they did not even bury it. They had a whole funeral for Tony. With the time of events being nine days in their world since Wanda took Vision's body, I would have honestly thought that his body would have still been in Wakanda. 

Please forgive me for this but is it just me that thought they were going to start looking for someone from the 80's in order to get to Wanda without being altered by the decade or her mind control. No? Just me? Okay.

All I'm going to say is if Wanda is really mind controlling everyone, she's not really doing the best job. Her own kids can tell something is up, "in the morning it was Saturday". It makes me question if she is losing track of the days or if she is changing them too fast. 

I really cannot tell if Wanda is lying anymore or not. When asked about her brother by her kids she simply says that he is away. I'm sure all of you that watched "Avengers: Age Of Ultron" know that her brother, aka Avengers' Quicksilver died. In all honesty, we do not know that for sure, reason being he never got a funeral. A funeral is supposed to symbolise closure and Wanda did not get that. She never did, and that is what probably lead to her irrational actions.

So right about now...we are going to zoom straight to the scene where the twins find out their dog had died. One significant thing I want to point out about this scene is simply how ironic Wanda is. When asked by her sons if she could bring their dog back to life she responds with, "can't reverse death". The IRONY. Like she did not just do that to live out her fantasy with Vision.

I do want to drag your attention to how they started playing credits and upbeat music when Vision started to grill Wanda. It was clearly a tactic to distract from the seriousness of their conversation. I find it peculiar how when Vision was expressing himself and telling Wanda what she was doing your absurd and wrong, she quickly turned it around asking is this enough, basically asking if she is enough.

Something that annoyed me was how they "recast" Quicksilver when really she could not find Pietro's body, if we were being completely honest. On a more a serious note why would Marvel do that to X-Men Quicksilver, even though they are both Marvel they are both from different universes...realistically. All I know is that they better not mess up his character or ELSE...

TO BE CONTINUED....

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